This is about creating a character counter for textarea and limit it accordingly. You may have seen this kinda stuff in some messaging site mostly in sites which provides SMS facilities. They limit us to enter only specified number of characters in text area. Also in some sites there are limitation on characters in comments. So this article will help you in building a similar thing which will look like below picture:

Character counter for text area in JavaScript

Step 1 create a text area for entering text and an input text box which will hold remaining character count.